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The Rights of Muslim Women

By:Dr. Nargis Ali Muslim Window:-The rights of Muslim women are so many and are so thoroughly laid out in the Quran and so well- documented in the hadith (prophetic practices), that it is impossible to contain them in an introductory essay. The following is only...

Mexican President Says He Made Trump Pay for Lunch

MEXICO CITY (The Borowitz Report)—The war of words between Donald J. Trump and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto continued on Thursday as Peña Nieto vehemently asserted that he made the Republican Presidential nominee pay for lunch during his visit to Mexico City. “As soon as...

Meat for Mecca: Somaliland Exports Livestock for the Hajj

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BERBERA, SOMALILAND — Every year, the breakaway republic of Somaliland, in east Africa, exports millions of livestock to Saudi Arabia to feed the millions of Muslim faithful making the pilgrimage to Mecca. From the hinterlands to the Somaliland capital, Hargeisa, millions of sheep and goats are...

Need motivation to hit the gym? Michelle Obama is here to help!

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Building on the First Lady's anti-childhood-obesity campaign 'Lets Move!', the video 'The History of Exercise' showcases the evolution of workouts through the decades. As if First Lady Michelle Obama and ‘Parks and Recreation’ actor Nick Offerman weren’t amazing enough individually, the duo teamed up with...

Turkey’s president Erdogan defends his massive post-coup crackdown

Today, the Minister of National Defence announced 820 personnel were dishonorably discharged from the Army and Navy. Of those, 648 were already under arrest. Turkey’s president has defended the sweeping crackdown that has seen the detention of thousands of judges and prosecutors following July’s failed...

Donald Trump Left His Bluster on This Side of the Border

By Jamelle Bouie Demure in Mexico, Trump returned to his message on U.S. soil: deportation now, deportation tomorrow, deportation forever. Donald Trump’s brand is bluster. It’s aggression. It’s an outsized show of dominance. And his pitch to voters depends on that brand. Vote for me, he...

EU Lawmakers Are About to Try Making Google Pay for Google News

It failed in Germany and Spain, so why not take the idea EU-wide? The European Commission is about to propose a law that would let news publishers across the EU try to charge companies like Google GOOG 0.24% for reproducing parts of their...

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg makes surprise visit to Kenya

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is in Kenya. The 32-year-old Internet entrepreneur and philanthropist announced his arrival via his Facebook page where he pointed out that his mission is to meet with Kenyan entrepreneurs and developers and learn about mobile money. The post read: “Just...

Facebook CEO lauds Africans’ ‘can-do’ spirit

  Africans’ entrepreneurial spirit, energy, and will to succeed are “underappreciated” across the world, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday on a visit to Nigeria’s commercial capital of Lagos. “The thing that is striking is the entrepreneurial energy and the will to succeed,”...

US adds Islamic State commander in Somalia to list of global terrorists

BY BILL ROGGIO The US Department of State added the commander of the Islamic State’s nascent force in Somalia to its list of specailly designated global terrorists today. Abdulqadr Mumin, the leader of the small cadre of Islamic State fighters in the East African nation,...